> This is one of the most important and hotly debated questions abotu the new
> parser design: should it allow syntactically incomplete templates, or not?

Yes, it's got all sorts of wonderful technical advantages: a DB-less 
translation from markup to DOM is nothing to be sneered at. Though I can throw 
out this cautionary tale: our old MW parser implementation didn't allow these 
"partial" templates, and our writers have spent maybe a dozen hours fruitlessly 
trying various crazy ways to factor up collections of common bullet points for 
use in lists of instructions.

Cheers,
Erik
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